How do you locate the 1st available removable drive in code?

[emaduddeen]

Hi Everyone,

I would like to write some code that will locate the 1st. available removable disk drive such as a thumb drive and store that drive letter into a variable.

Can you tell me how do this.

Thanks.

Truly,
Emad

 

[realm174]

I never tried this, and can't test it from here as I don't have VB installed on this computer, but off the top of my head, is there not a system.io.driveinfo that might have the information you're looking for? Sorry I can't be more specific, but someone else might have more on that...



Cheers,

Realm174

 

[emaduddeen]

Hi realm174,

I was able to find a solution:

    Private Sub FindThumbDrive()
        ' Find the highest drive letter of a thumb drive inserted into the computer.
        '---------------------------------------------------------------------------
        For Each objDrive As DriveInfo In DriveInfo.GetDrives
            If objDrive.DriveType = DriveType.Removable Then
                strDestinationDrive = objDrive.Name
            End If
        Next

        If strDestinationDrive = Nothing Then
            MessageBox.Show("I can't do any backups because there is no " & _
                                            "thumb drive found on your computer." & _
                                            vbCrLf & vbCrLf & _
                                            "Please insert one and try again.", "Important", _
                                            MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Exclamation)
        End If
    End Sub

Truly,
Emad